Chapter 17 Chapter Sixteen Vampire Vine

A group of people came to the tomb door on the left side of the tomb. This tomb door is about one meter wide and two meters high. The word "wood" is written on the top of the tomb door. Why is the word "wood" written on this tomb?The tomb in the middle just now has a "soil" written on it. Could it be that the structure of the tomb is arranged according to the Yin-Yang and Five Elements?Since this tomb belonged to the Mongols in the Yuan Dynasty, how could the structure be arranged according to the Yin-Yang and Five Elements? When everyone came to the door, they saw that there was no knocker on the door, and there was a raised black stone on the right side of the tomb.The fourth uncle turned the stone to the right with his hand, and heard the sound of the door opening.Everyone was overjoyed and rushed in one after another, only Huo Gang entered later.

This tomb is very large, about 30 square meters, which is not comparable to ordinary tombs.The tomb is in the shape of a fan, and inside it is piled full of wood in a pyramid shape. There are three piles in total, and each piece of wood is as thick as the mouth of a bowl.No wonder the name of this tomb is "Mu", because it turned out to be full of wood.I suddenly realized that if this is the five elements, then the five elements are too simple. Uncle Wu also had the same opinion as me. Uncle Wu said: "This house is made of wood, so according to the principle of the five elements, wood is in the east and metal is in the west. Now we should go out to find the tomb of the 'Jin' brand."

I also nodded in agreement, but the fourth uncle said, "I'm afraid it won't be so easy to leave." At this moment, the door of the tomb closed with a bang.Everyone was startled and checked the tomb door one after another.At this time, everyone was allowed to look for it, but they could no longer find the tomb door to open and leave. The fourth uncle said: "Yishui, Lao Wu, do you remember the man who just died at the door? The man said that this tomb is dangerous, but so far we have not encountered any danger. We came to the main tomb just now, but the tomb there The door is closed, so where is the danger?"

I asked, "Where is it?" The fourth uncle said: "Don't you know where it is?" After speaking, the fourth uncle shined his searchlight on the corners on both sides of the fan-shaped tomb, and there were many dead bones around the corners.The two girls, including Zhang Lei, were taken aback. It was the first time they saw so many dead bones. Everyone stood tightly together, not daring to move around casually. All the searchlights had been turned on, illuminating the entire tomb.A few minutes later, there was still no change in the tomb. I coughed and said, "Fourth Uncle, are we being too careful? I think it's all wood here. We should figure out how to get out."

When everyone heard what I said, they all felt that it made sense, and they all nodded in agreement. Liu Ge stood beside me, not daring to move.I looked at her and found that she was looking at me. Only then did I understand that since Liu Ge entered the ancient tomb, he has been following me and never left. I smiled at Liu Ge and said, "Don't worry, I'm here!" Everyone knows that girls like to bite boys' arms, and so does Liu Ge.I don't know if Liu Ge is used to biting or just has a special liking for my arm, so Liu Ge grabbed my arm and bit it.Fourth Uncle saw Liu Ge biting my arm, and only heard Fourth Uncle yell: "What are you doing?"

But the arm has been bitten down at this time, and blood is bleeding.Liu Ge bit my arm during evening self-study. Although the blood was not deep, it was still visible.Now being bitten again by Liu Ge, blood oozes from the surface of the skin. Liu Ge didn't expect to be seen by his fourth uncle. This seemingly intimate gesture must not be understood by his fourth uncle.The fourth uncle looked at my arm and shouted loudly: "Quick, fifth, find the exit quickly, quick!" I don't know why the fourth uncle was so excited, everyone immediately searched the corners and walls of the tomb with flashlights.But it was too late, and I heard the sizzling sound of the three piles of wood.Hearing this strange sound, everyone immediately turned their lights on the wood, and saw that the largest wood on the top of the three piles of wood fell to the ground one after another, followed by bursts of white smoke from the top of the pile of wood. Like the heat exhaled by people in winter.

Everyone held their breath and did not dare to move.Uncle Fourth and Uncle Fifth had already prepared pistols, and I was also holding my own dagger, but the four of them remained motionless, obviously without any weapons in their hands.I asked Zhang Lei, "Why didn't you bring anything with you?" Zhang Lei said: "I came out too hastily, and I didn't have time to prepare." At this time, Huo Gang rushed to the pile of dead people and took out a shovel. This shovel was about half a meter long and foldable, just like a German engineer shovel.This engineer shovel seems to have been left by the early batch of tomb robbers. It seems that many people died here.Seeing that Huo Gang got a shovel, Zhang Lei went to the pile of dead people to get some thigh bones of the dead, and handed them to Liu Ge and Ding Meng.Liu Ge took a dead human bone, but Ding Meng didn't dare to take it because he was afraid.

The fourth uncle said: "It seems that the first group of people that the person at the door of the tomb said he hadn't seen died here." In fact, the bones of dead people are still very strong, and they can be used as handy weapons, but they are not very elegant.I wanted a dead human bone too, but my fourth uncle stopped me, who said, "You don't want to die, did you forget that you still have injuries on your hands?" I smiled and said, "What kind of injury is this?" The fourth uncle said: "What kind of injury is this? If you were on the ground, your injury would not be considered an injury if it was ten times worse than this, but this is a tomb, an ancient tomb. If it wasn't for that little girl who bit you just now, what happened? None of that will happen. The stuff inside just woke up to the smell of your blood."

Only then did I suddenly realize why Fourth Uncle stopped Liu Ge so much just now and told everyone to find the door quickly.But it was still too late. After the top cover on the three piles of wood was lifted, a tongue-shaped wooden vine crawled out of it.The wooden vine was originally brown, but after climbing out, it slowly turned red, and then the pile of wood also turned red, as if it had been poured with blood.The wooden vines slowly climbed out of the pile of logs and reached out to the crowd. Everyone felt terrible.Fourth Uncle fired four or five shots at the tongue, two of which hit the wooden vine, and the wooden vine spattered red blood.It's just that after the wooden vine was pierced, it slowly returned to its original shape, becoming more red, and continued to rush towards the crowd.

I was the first to leave the crowd, and pulled Liu Ge to the side.Who would have thought that at this moment, those three wooden vine tongues left the crowd and ran towards me.I hurriedly dragged Liu Ge to the opposite direction, and the small tomb suddenly became a mess. While running, the fourth uncle shouted: "Yishui, stop pulling that girl, that tongue is running towards you, just throw her away." I was shocked, how could this Muteng run towards me Come.But I still let go, and Liu Ge was pulled aside by my fourth uncle. As I ran, I saw the wooden vines sweep wildly where the blood dripped from my hand.At this time, Uncle Wu had already pulled out his knife, and when Mu Teng attacked me, Uncle Fourth swiped at Mu Teng with his dagger, only to see that the end of Mu Teng's tongue fell to the ground, and the ground was covered with red water stains. A bloody smell rushed towards him.After the withered vine broke, I thought that if the wooden vine would not perish, at least it would be exhausted.But after the other two wooden vines broke, they immediately stretched out to the section of wooden vine that fell on the ground, and the broken wooden vine also immediately stretched out to his own tongue.After the three wooden vines sucked the broken wooden vines, they became even more blood red.

There was mucus like saliva on Muteng's body. Looking at the intertwined appearance of the three wooden vines, my stomach was overwhelmed.At this time, looking at the wooden piles of the pyramids, they also became red at this time, as if layers of blood flowed over them.The fourth uncle knew that letting the three tongues go on like this would get worse, so he took the engineering shovel from Huo Gang's hand and ran to the coffin.The fourth uncle slashed and smashed at the vines on the pile of wood, and large pieces of vines fell to the ground.And the other two wooden vines immediately ran to the coffin where the fourth uncle was, as if seeing a life-saving straw, and sucked up the half of the wooden vines that fell on the ground in an instant. After the fourth uncle cut the first root, he saw the blood on the three wood piles slowly purify, and it was no longer so blurry, and he could even see the wood piles connected one by one.I don't think so, the blood in these wood piles changes from less to more, and then from more to red, obviously there is something strange in it. Sure enough, when the fourth uncle finished chopping the second wooden vine, the piles of wood had become transparent, covered with blood-like veins, bleeding continuously.The more I saw this, the more terrifying I felt.At this time, Uncle Wu also rushed up, and the two of them kept chopping the wooden vines, but new wooden vines continued to grow out from the depths of the pile. At this time, the pile of wood became completely clear and transparent. This is not a pile of wood, but a coffin, because it looks like a pile of trees, so it looks like a pile of wood.From the outside, there are countless skulls and ribs inside this transparent coffin. These skulls and ribs are stirred around by the wooden vines inside the tongue. It seems that there is nothing to absorb. For a while, I didn't understand what kind of phenomenon this was. At this time, I couldn't explain it with any biology.Looking at the four people behind them, the two girls were already crying in fright, screaming.And Zhang Lei was also trembling all over, only Huo Gang was still mentally normal, and he couldn't see any major abnormalities. Because my hand was a little skinned, I couldn't get close to the coffin anymore, but I was also anxious.At this moment, the fourth and fifth uncles were suddenly rolled up by those tongue-shaped wooden vines and pulled into the coffin.The other tongue no longer went straight to me alone, but to Huo Gang who was closest to the coffin. I haven't met Huo Gang before, so I don't know what he knows. Could it be that he came down out of curiosity like Zhang Lei?Thoughts flickered in his head a few times, and he saw that Huo Gang had already picked up the thigh bone in Zhang Lei's hand and hit the tongue.But holding a femur like this is no different than being bare-handed.Seeing that Huo Gang was about to be pulled into the coffin, I rushed forward and cut off the tongue-shaped wooden vine with the dagger given to me by my fourth uncle. After Huo Gang was rescued, he rolled to the edge of the tomb, and the broken wooden vine immediately grew again, hitting the place where my arm was bitten.I thought to myself, these things also know how to drink fresh blood.So continue to paddle to the wooden vine.But the speed of the wooden vine was too fast, and soon wrapped my whole body. My arm was entangled by the wooden vine and I couldn't move, and the dagger fell to the ground.At this time, I felt that my whole body was wrapped up so that I couldn't breathe, and the blood flowed out little by little. The wooden vine that wrapped me was extremely bright red, far better than the other two wooden vines. Seeing that I was bound, Liu Ge dropped the femur in his hand and retrieved the dagger from the ground.Fortunately, Liu Ge had practiced Sanda, so her speed was relatively fast. She reached the coffin in the middle and cut off the wooden vine with a knife.The blood on the wooden vines splashed all over Liu Ge's upper body, and the whole tomb was filled with a strong smell of blood. At this time, I had already lost a lot of blood, and I lay on the ground with no strength in my body, and the wooden vines wrapped around my body became loose.But the severed wooden vine stretched out again and went straight to Liu Ge.There was a lot of blood on Liu Ge's body, and the position where he stood was closest to the coffin, so it was most likely to attract Mu Teng. I was anxious, but I couldn't use any strength. I wondered how this Yuan Dynasty tomb had so many messy things. Could this wooden vine really grow endlessly?I picked up the bone that Liu Ge threw on the ground just now, and hit the wooden vine, but the wooden vine couldn't be knocked back by a mere thigh bone. At this time, I only heard the sound of "sizzling" from the coffin on the left, and the fourth uncle came out of the coffin with a messy face, and the wooden vines in the coffin were overwhelmed in the coffin, like countless snakes inside. bite. At this time, Uncle Fourth ran to the coffin where Uncle Fifth was, took out a detonator, pulled out the gunpowder, and fell into the coffin.Following the coffin where Uncle Wu is located, the same scene as the coffin on the left, with green smoke rising and snakes flying.Fifth Uncle was also pale, obviously sucked a lot of blood, and could barely walk.Huo Gang walked over carefully and helped the fourth uncle to the corner. At this time, the movement of the coffin on the left had gradually decreased, while the coffin in the middle was still attacking me and Liu Ge. At the moment of crisis, my fourth uncle sprinkled the gunpowder of another detonator, and the wooden vines wrapped around my arms suddenly lost their strength and softened.The coffins on both sides were completely calm at this time, the blood color gradually faded to black, and was no longer transparent, showing brown wood again, which still looked like a pile of wood. I didn't expect that my uncle's detonator could still play such a role. My uncle said that it was the saltpeter and sulfur in the gunpowder that subdued the vampire vines in the coffin. I asked my fourth uncle what it was, and he said, "This is a vampire vine. Vampire vines grow in extremely shady places and specialize in sucking human blood, especially the blood of dead people. Under this ancient tomb, it must be This blood-sucking vine was buried by the owner of the tomb, otherwise it would not be possible for it to grow here automatically. According to legend, there was a prince in the Han Dynasty who planted this blood-sucking vine in order to prevent his tomb from being stolen." I said, "These people are too bad. They collected so much money during their lifetime and planted such terrible things in the tomb after death." The fourth uncle said: "The place where the blood-sucking wood vine grows must rely on blood to provide nutrition for itself. Once it loses nutrition, it will go to sleep, but it will wake up immediately when it smells blood, and it can move freely like an animal. This kind of plant is strong. It has strong vitality, and I didn't think that gunpowder could subdue it. I wanted to blow up the coffin, but the wooden vines had already wet the fuse, so it couldn't light up. I simply poured out the gunpowder and prepared to burn it with a lighter. Thinking that the sulfur and saltpeter components of gunpowder are effective in subduing blood-sucking vines. Poor me, I only have one detonator now." I asked, "Where did you learn about this vampire vine?" The fourth uncle said: "In the book at home, I didn't believe there was such a wicked thing at the time, so I didn't pay attention to it. I never thought I would encounter it here. This kind of vampire vine lives in the jungle of Xishuangbanna. It is extremely rare. In the Song Dynasty, it was constantly eradicated because of its incomparable evil. It was extinct in the Southern Song Dynasty, and I don’t know how the Mongols discovered it. If this kind of vampire vine wants to maintain its vitality for thousands of years, it must continuously supply blood. Wrong, this tomb should be a sacrificial room." Everyone was taken aback, including the fifth uncle, who was dumbfounded, only to hear the fourth uncle say: "In order to supply the blood source, this tomb must use living people to worship, so the underground of those wooden pile-shaped coffins should be empty. The purpose is to let the blood-sucking vines take root in the ground, and the coffin is used for storing dead bodies and storing blood. The reason why this tomb is placed first is to attract the attention of tomb robbers. When the tomb robbers come in, the blood-sucking vines will Slowly wake up. People who come in later will naturally not be able to escape." I asked, "How did that person at the door escape?" The fourth uncle shook his head and said, "I don't know either. It doesn't look like this person entered this tomb. You see, the engineer shovel is new, and it is very likely that he came in with that person, but because They got separated for other reasons, that person went into another tomb, and the person with the engineer shovel went into the current tomb.” Uncle Wu said: "The blood-sucking vines inside are dead, but how do we get out?" The fourth uncle thought for a while and said, "Do you still remember that there are four keyholes on the top of the main tomb?" The fifth uncle said yes, and the fourth uncle said: "If my guess is correct, these four keys must be distributed in the four tombs. Do you remember that the name of the main tomb is 'Tu', what does 'Tu' stand for, 'Tu' 'Represents life, and only when there is soil can all things grow. Among the five forms of yin and yang, the soil is in the middle, so it can be concluded that this tomb is a tomb arranged according to the five elements of yin and yang." After hearing this, everyone felt that it was very reasonable. At this time, everyone sat down, especially my fourth and fifth uncles, who had lost too much blood and could no longer exert any strength.And Huo Gang was swept by the vampire vine, and his body was in great pain.Although Zhang Lei and Ding Meng were standing there, they were sweating from fright, especially Ding Meng, who was so frightened that he couldn't speak when he saw such a coffin.At this time, only Liu Ge was in better condition. Although his body smelled a little fishy, ​​his body was not injured.After the fourth uncle sat down, he continued: "These four tombs should be 'wood, gold, fire, and water' respectively. Each tomb should have a key, otherwise the tomb will become a dead tomb. Extremely unfavorable. Wood dominates life, wood produces fire, fire belongs to yang, and its location is in the east." At this time, Huo Gang said: "This tomb is not like being in the east!" The fourth uncle was taken aback, and said, "What did you say?" Huo Gang said: "This tomb is on the west. The sewer is on the south, and the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty also face south, so the entrance to the tomb is also south. Since the gate of the tomb is facing south, we came to the left side of the main tomb. Our location must be on the west side of the burial chamber, not the east side." After hearing this, everyone nodded their heads one after another. Unexpectedly, Fourth Uncle would make mistakes.The fourth uncle didn't know why at this time, but according to the structure of the five elements, there was definitely nothing wrong.The fourth uncle said: "No matter where is east or where is west, it is always right to find the key according to Yin Yang and Five Elements." Zhang Lei said: "We searched for a long time just now and didn't find any keyhole!" The fourth uncle said: "Since the tomb is arranged according to the five elements, you will definitely not be able to find it with your hands. Look at this tomb. It is fan-shaped. I guess that except for the middle tomb, which is circular, the other tombs should be round." Fan-shaped. In this way, the Eight Diagrams can be drawn outside the five elements." After hearing this, everyone lamented the genius of the ancients on the one hand, and the talent and learning of the fourth uncle on the other hand. Even I was amazed by it.Unexpectedly, the fourth uncle, who usually only knows how to fish, has such a high attainment in Yi learning. I saw the fourth uncle repeatedly drawing messy and unintelligible pictures on the ground, and then listed some weird formulas on the ground.After about ten minutes, the fourth uncle said weakly: "I have deduced it. As we all know, the gossip is divided into 'Qian, Kun, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Li, Gen, Dui', arranged according to the position. But it is Yang gossip , for the construction of yang houses. The yin house has the construction method of the yin house, and the yin house should use the yin gossip. The yin gossip is "rest, life, injury, du, scene, death, surprise, and opening". The technique commonly used in the tomb. Now we are on the west side, to be precise, in the southwest. Because the tomb passage has been opened in the south, the south should be changed to the southeast, the west to the southwest, and the north to the south. It becomes the northwest orientation, and the due east becomes the northeast orientation. This azimuth change has two functions, one is to free up the Zhengnan gate for the tomb passage, and the other is to use the eight trigrams for positioning. But whether the five elements are the master or the eight trigrams is the master, at present It’s still hard to say. Attention everyone, the tomb we are in now is called the “Mu” tomb, and this tomb occupies the position that should have belonged to the “Jin” tomb. There are two doors in this tomb, and the left one is the “Du” door. The one on the right is the 'view' gate, after the view gate is open, everyone now go to the left wall near the coffin on the right and look for a mechanism." At this time, Zhang Lei, Ding Meng, Liu Ge, and Huo Gang, who were not injured, all walked over. They held flashlights, but they still couldn't find any mechanism.At this moment, Ding Meng who was standing next to the coffin on the left seemed to notice something, and she said, "Hey, it seems to be empty here." Because the heels of Ding Meng's shoes are relatively hard, the sound they make when stepping on the ground is particularly loud, so after walking a few more steps, he can tell that the bricks there are different. After the fourth uncle heard it, he said, "Pull the stone bricks away." Ding Meng opened the stone brick and said, "There is a box inside." The fourth uncle asked Ding Meng to take out the box and open it.Ding Meng opened the box according to what Uncle Si said, and found a key about ten centimeters long inside.This key has an antique patina, but it is extremely thick.The fourth uncle coughed twice and said, "Go and see if there is a keyhole in that square box." At this time, Zhang Lei stood at the place where the stone brick was found, and said to the fourth uncle, "There is a hole in it." The fourth uncle stood up and said, "Okay, open that hole, and we can go out." Seeing how hard Uncle Si was struggling, I hurriedly said, "Let me do it." I stooped and stood up. Maybe Zhang Lei hadn't done much work, and felt guilty. He took the key and said, "You guys rest first, I'll do it." After speaking, Zhang Lei went straight to the stone brick keyhole.Ding Meng and Huo Gang followed Zhang Lei and illuminated him.Liu Ge saw that his fourth uncle was having difficulty getting up, so he immediately turned around to support him.Although the fourth uncle felt uncomfortable when Liu Ge bit me just now, he still nodded when he saw Liu Ge coming to help him. I was groggy and felt like I might collapse at any moment.At this time, I felt that my arm was being held, and when I turned around to look, I saw Liu Ge looking at me with her mouth pouted, with her right arm wrapped around my left arm. Just when I wanted to smile at Liu Ge, I heard a booming sound, followed by three "ah", I turned around and saw that Zhang Lei and the other three were no longer in front of me.